
The Bingers play Schubas on Wednesday | Photo by Drew Reynolds Welcome to Weekly Diversions! This is our new weekly show calendar in which we preview our local show picks for Monday through Thursday. MONDAY OOZING WOUND Seeing how it's Metal Monday, in cool people's camps at least, it's fitting that Oozing Wound plays this evening. Featuring two members of the now defunct Cacaw (drummer Kyle [...]

Population The weather cooled down just in time for the mighty Milwaukee Avenue Arts Festival , which we gave you the lowdown on in our 12 Chicago Street Fests To Attend in 2012 . But if you can't make it there, fear not! There's plenty of other sweet shows going down this weekend including Population (and Radar Eyes and Disappears) at the Empty Bottle , Nones at Crown [...]

This is the 1st GIMMETINNITUSCAST. Downloadable: GIMMETINNITUSCAST ep 1 (mp3) Streamable: GIMMETINNITUSCAST ep 1 (mixcloud) Tracklisting: 1. Disappears :: Replicate 2. NT :: Reflection 3. THE FIELD RECORDINGS :: Here Comes the War Dept 4. Stagnant Pools :: Consistency 5. Eleanor :: PRAISE INFINITE LIGHT 6. Wire :: Drill 7. FOOTWORK :: Jurassic Punk 8. Daylight Robbery :: flat city 9. Tanlines :: Brothers 10. Conduits :: Top of the Hill 11. Haunted Horses :: Medusan Sky [...]

It's time to check out a bunch of the tracks I have not posted recently. These are just a few of the songs that would get their own individual posts here on GIMME TINNITUS if I only had the time. Here is the next NOT POSTED mix. Listen. Downloadables: When I Saw Myself Sleeping (mp3) by ZEPHYRS [d/l BYE SUN @ zephyrsband.bandcamp.com ] flat city (mp3) by Daylight Robbery [d/l Ladyfest [...]
Coming bursting out of the gates with a fire that rivals that of Fifteen or Brand New, Selfmademan inflicts their brutal, political vision of screamo on their audience. “Who Will Sing To This” spirals more and more out of control, with a barrage of different instruments coming into play. Slipping a little bit, Jay’s vocals [...]

Maximum Wage And now three holy-crap-43-degrees-next-week reasons to bundle up for what is hopefully the last of the frigid weather and head on over to the Empty Bottle this evening... 1. Chicago's Maximum Wage is no stranger to the local scene. The warm, melodic minimal trio is comprised of former members of other such notable windy city acts such as The Ponys, Red Eyed Legends and Submarine Races. The band's approach to garage rock is more accesible than you'd probably expect. The guitars are clean and the bass and [...]

Autistic Youth Three if-anything-sets-off-my-Fallin g-Down-moment-it'll-be-these-f ucking-leaf-blowers reasons to prepare your most disinterested face and head over to Ronny's tonight... 1. Punk Rock! Yeah, it's been mall-a-fied and the Ramones may be Muzak approved, but when it's done right it still itches that scratch. Portland's Autistic Youth do it right. Firstly, there's "youth" right in the name. That's punk rock 101 there. Plus, their songs hearken back to the snotty anthems of The Adolescents, a band that was my soundtrack to more than one summer. [...]